Way Quotes

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

There's more than one way to sense violence.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.